Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)

On the whole, however, the reported cases in this area tend to appear very “pro-employer”. In Yapp v the Foreign and Commonwealth Office [2014] EWCA Civ 1512, for example, the Court of Appeal ruled that an employer is entitled to assume that someone who is apparently healthy, with no history of psychiatric ill health, can endure “even a very serious setback at work” (in this case, an unjustified suspension) without developing a depressive illness.

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